Example 39-22

Ikəl di ki yo viw a use tiŋ muyt sɔl.

Ikəl

dem

di

day

ki

rel

yo

1sg

vi-w

see-pst

a

acc

use

2

t-iŋ

exist-pst

muyt

much

sɔl.

sun

The day that I saw you was very sunny.

Comment:

In Diu Indo-Portuguese, there is a pair of nearly interchangeable prepositions (a and pə) which mark not only indirect objects but also (animate and pronominal) direct objects and even subjects (of experiencer verbs). In the literature on South Asian languages, case markers with similar distributions are sometimes called 'Dative-Accusative' markers, and subject arguments which receive them are called 'Dative subjects'. To make glosses more readable, these markers are variously glossed here as DAT or ACC, according to the role of the arguments in question.